methodism

noun1

1. •
   The practice of adhering (often excessively) to methods.

   • Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge. — 1999

noun2

1. •
   The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England.

   • Far more Yankees shifted to Methodism, an eighteenth-century splinter from the Anglican Church with an emphasis on effecting social change[.] — 2011
2. •
   Any of several related movements.